Dashiell Hammett

• 1923
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The Continental Op was Hammett's first private eye--the model for Sam Spade and all detective heroes that followed. A fat, cold-eyed operative for the Continental Detective Agency, whose only interest is to do his job, he is an isolated hero in a wor...

• 1929
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When the last honest citizen of Poisonville was murdered, the Continental Op stayed on to punish the guilty--even if that meant taking on an entire town. Red Harvest is more than a superb crime novel: it is a classic exploration of corruption and vio...

• 1933
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Nick and Nora Charles are Hammett's most enchanting creations, a rich, glamorous couple who solve homicides in between wisecracks and martinis. At once knowing and unabashedly romantic, The Thin Man is a murder mystery that doubles as a sophisticated...

• 1960
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When plotting a murder (figuratively speaking), the mystery writer has at hand any number of M.O.'s including such tried and true conventions as the locked room, the unbreakable alibi, the double bluff, the mistaken identity, and many others. Indeed,...

• Sep-1965
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• Oct-1972
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Short, thick-bodied, mulishly stubborn, and indifferent to physical pain, Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op was the prototype for generations of tough-guy detectives. He is also the hero of most of the nine stories in this volume. The Op's one enthus...

• Jul-1989
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A young, frightened, foreign woman appears at the door of an isolated house. The man and woman inside take her in. Other strangers appear in pursuit of the girl. Menace is in the air.

Originally published in 1933, Hammett's Woman in the Dark s...

• Sep-1999
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Twenty long-unavailable stories by Dashiell Hammett, the author of The Maltese Falcon and the incomparable master of detective fiction.In the title story, a man on a bender enters a small town and ends up unraveling the dark mystery at its heart. A w...

• Sep-2001
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In the stories and novellas he wrote for Black Mask and other pulp magazines in the 1920s and 1930s, Dashiell Hammett took the detective story and turned it into a medium for capturing the jarring textures and revved-up cadences of modern American ...

• Feb-2005
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Sam Spade, Nick and Nora Charles, The Continental Op. In his novels and stories, Dashiell Hammett created some of the most memorable characters--detectives, dames, and assorted miscreants--in twentieth-century fiction. It is nearly impossible to imag...

• Feb-2012
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Peril Press presents: Mystery League Magazine, October 1 1933 NIGHT SHADE by Dashiell Hammett 1200 Words The Black Mask, February 15, 1924 THE NEW RACKET aka THE JUDGE LAUGHED LAST by Dashiell Hammett 2200 Words 1948 The Adventures of Sam Spade S...

• Feb-2012
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Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a ...

• Apr-2012
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Brief Stories, January 1924ITCHYa.k.a Itchy the Debonairby Dashiell HammettIt is said that “Art imitates Nature”—or, to put it another way, “Art imitates Life”; but isn’t true that Life often imitates Art? He...

• Aug-2012
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Quite possibly the greatest author to appear in the pages of Black Mask magazine-Dashiell Hammett-is finally included in the authorized Black Mask Library. Hammett's influential Continental Op series set the editorial tone for Black Mask and all of t...

• Nov-2012
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Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last--and most successful--novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories ...

• May-2013
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Here, for the first time in a deluxe collector’s box, is the most comprehensive edition of the hard-boiled crime fiction of Dashiell Hammett ever published. Complete Novels, the first of two volumes gathered here, presents the five groundbreaking b...

• Oct-2013
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PERIL PRESS presents: Detective Fiction Weekly, October 19, 1929 THE DIAMOND WAGER by Dashiell Hammett An Amateur Thief Brings Off a Four-Million-Franc Job with an Old Bearskin Coat and a Mugful of Soap Suds 4 Chapters 7600 Words The Bookman, Septe...

• Nov-2013
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Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light. Along with the full-length screen treatments "On...

• Dec-2013
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PERIL PRESS presents: Saucy Stories, October 15 1923 Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, August 1959 IN THE MORGUE aka The Dimple by Dashiell Hammett A generation or so ago, when this story was first published, an author was not permitted to refer i...

• Apr-2019
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Dashiell Hammett is the innovative master and inventor of hard-boiled fiction, an unsentimental style of American crime writing in which the isolated hero exists in a sordid world where treachery is the only norm. Many of these stories first appea...

• Jan-2020
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"The House in Turk Street" is an early short story by Dashiell Hammett, featuring the Continental Op. It was first published in Black Mask in April 1924. This story indicates Hammett was turning towards themes of increasing violence in his stories, a...

• Mar-2020
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A ravishingly illustrated version of Dashiell Hammett's Fly Paper--his first truly hard-boiled story--with over two hundred water-based monochromes, that reimagine and recreate in unexpected ways the unsettling atmosphere and sensibility of Hammett's...

• Mar-2020
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A Tale of the Continental Op The man who had disturbed my Sunday morning sleep—I found when I reached the Glenton—was a slim, white-faced person of about twenty-five, with big brown eyes that were red-rimmed just now from either sleepless...

• May-2021
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When the daughter of San Francisco industrialist Harvey Gatewood is kidnapped, the Continental Op and local police are brought in to try to get her back....

• Oct-2021
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At three o’clock one afternoon the Continental Op started to investigate what looked like a simple case of a stolen car; by four o’clock that same afternoon he had packed one hour -- sixty short minutes -- ram-jam-full of explosive action....

• Nov-2023
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“Now I’m a detective because I happen to like the work. It pays me a fair salary, but I could find other jobs that would pay more…Now I pass up that twenty-five or thirty thousand of honest gain because I like being a detective, lik...

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Dashiell Hammett is the undisputed master of hardboiled detective fiction, and one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. Originally published in the October 1923 issue of Black Mask, 'Arson Plus' was one of his earliest published tales, and a ...

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THE ASSISTANT MURDERER AND OTHER STORIES contains ten thrilling pulp detective stories by Samuel Dashiell Hammett. One of the most popular writers of his era, Hammett's works appeared widely in detective and noir magazines of the 1920s and early 193...

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When eight diamonds are stolen from a prominent San Francisco family, the Continental Op is called in to investigate. But the missing jewels aren’t the only thing out of the ordinary. The man who reported the burglary ends up dead, ostensibly a sui...

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A one-time detective and master of deft understatement, Dashiell Hammett virtually invented the hardboiled crime novel. This classic work of detective fiction combines an airtight plot, authentically venal characters, and writing of telegraphic crisp...

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Dashiell Hammett, the creator of Sam Spade, The Maltese Falcon, and The Thin Man, was one of the 20th century’s most influential and entertaining authors. Even so, many of Hammett’s stories -- including some of his best -- have been out of the re...

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"When Secret Agent X-9 premiered in January 1934, King Features could proudly boast that its new adventure strip was written by the world''s most famous mystery writer — Dashiell Hammett, the man who virtually invented the hard-boiled detective...

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A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own solitary code of ethics. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties...